“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 10
“It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”
Bill Shankly (1913–1981) Scottish footballer and manager
Attributed to Shankly in 2013, thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: http://www.empireofthekop.com/2013/07/26/liverpool-should-aim-for-epl-title-and-possibly-finish-in-the-top-four-by-liverpool_red1/ <br class="br">Source: Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings https://books.google.com/books?id=tnpYzxOSsDoC&pg=PT120&dq=%22Aim+for+the+sky%22+ceiling&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAGoVChMIoszvpuGkyAIVyD6ICh0pVwwm#v=onepage&q=%22Aim%20for%20the%20sky%22%20ceiling&f=false, p. 32, 1998
“And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence
"Renascence" (1912), st. 3 Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Context: But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And — sure enough! — I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
In Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.1#
“To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.”
Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer
Source: Yours Until Dawn